Comments on: About to cancel Highrise

By: Jeton

Jeton — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:11:38 +0000

Jacob, if you’re in need of something simple, you might try todoist.com.

It’s simple, the UI is very straightforward and it has gmail integration as well.

By: Jacob Reiff

Jacob Reiff — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:57:39 +0000

@Scott: Thanks for your comment. I'm with you—I don't dismiss 37Signals' products, I'm a happy Basecamp user. I've checked out Toodledo, but it seems too complex for what I need. Currently for to-do's I use a combination of iCal (which syncs with my Nokia E62, for daily/few days out to-dos), Basecamp (for project specific long-term to-dos), and Ta-Da Lists (for personal to-do lists/projects, random ideas, etc). It seems a bit unwieldy, but works pretty well for me. Highrise's Task lists just duplicated the iCal functionality in my workflow, and I don't want to give up having those tasks sync'ed into my phone.

By: Scott Blitstein

Scott Blitstein — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:40:51 +0000

I downgraded my sub as well (after having to manually delete approx 100 contacts one at a time).

I like the way that the task list uses the today, tomorrow, later philosophy but found it lacking as a complete task manager (I prefer toodledo)

I think they have put some great functionality into it but there were just too many things missing or annoyances that keep me from committing to it fully.

I set up a task in my tickler to re-examine it in a year though – I don’t dismiss anything that the 37signals folks put out forever.